Description : Place three piles of matches on a table, one with 11 matches, the second with 7, and the third with 6. You are to move matches so that each pile holds 8 matches. You may add to any pile only as many ... a pile holds 6 matches, you may add 6 to it, no more or less. You have three moves. -Riddles
Last Answer : First pile to second; second to third; third to first:Pile Initial number First move Second move Third move First1111-7=444+4=8Second77+7=1414-6=88Third666+6=1212-4=8
Description : Three matches are sitting on a table. Without adding another make for three matches four. You are not allowed to break any of the matches. -Riddles
Last Answer : Shape the 3 matches into a romanumeral four.
Description : Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand? -Riddles
Last Answer : 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.
Description : I am a word. My first four letters refer to a mark on a person's skin; three letters found in the middle refer to what all mathematics students know. My last four letters refer to a place where ... and my whole is familiar to all economics students. I am an eight letter word. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Scarcity
Description : At a local bar, three friends, Mr. Green, Mr. Red and Mr. Blue, were having a drink. One man was wearing a red suit; one a green suit; and the other a blue suit. 'Have you noticed,' said ... looked at the other two and said, 'You're absolutely correct.' What color suit is each man wearing? -Riddles
Last Answer : Since none of the men are wearing the color of suit that corresponds to their names, and Mr. Red was replying to the man in the blue suit, it had to be Mr. Green to whom he replied. We then know ... wearing a blue suit. Therefore, Mr. Red is wearing a green suit and Mr. Blue is wearing a red suit.
Description : Robert and David played several golf matches against each other in a week. They played for a pizza at each match, but no pizzas were purchased until the end of the week. If at any time Robert and ... matches (but no pizzas), and David won three pizzas. How many rounds of golf were played? -Riddles
Last Answer : Eleven, David won 7 matches, 4 to cancel out Robert's 4 wins, and 3 more to win the pizzas.
Description : Using only addition, how do you add eight 8s and get the number 1,000?
Last Answer : A: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.
Description : I am a three digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Number 194.
Description : Take eight small sticks, four of which are half the length of the other four. Make three equal squares out of the sticks. -Riddles
Last Answer : Use the longer four sticks to be sharing sides between the squares and at the end their should be three intertwined squares.
Description : Not far outside the town of Pottsville, a railroad track runs through a tunnel in a hillside. There's only one track, and the tunnel is wide enough for only one train. But one day, two trains ... out at the opposite ends of the tunnel. Yet, there was no collision! How was this possible? -Riddles
Last Answer : One train comes at 8am and the other train came at 8pm.
Description : A mother has three sick children. She has a 24-ounce bottle of medicine and needs to give each child eight ounces of the medicine. She is unable to get to the store and has only three ... to give each child an equal portion without having any two children drink from the same container? -Riddles
Last Answer : Fill the 5 oz. and 11 oz. Containers from the 24 oz. container. This leaves 8 oz. in the 24 oz. bottle. Next empty the 11 oz. bottle by pouring the contents into the 13 oz. bottle. Fill the ... . bottle. Finally pour the 5 oz. bottle contents into the 11 oz. bottle giving 8 oz. in this container.
Description : A hunter met two shepherds, one of whom had three loaves and the other, five loaves. All the loaves were the same size. The three men agreed to share the eight loaves equally between them. ... bronze coins as payment for his meal. How should the two shepherds fairly divide this money? -Riddles
Last Answer : The shepherd who had three loaves should get one coin and the shepherd who had five loaves should get seven coins. If there were eight loaves and three men, each man ate two and two-thirds loaves. So ... a loaf should get one coin and the one who gave seven-thirds of a loaf should get seven coins.
Description : Why are artist no good in sports matches? -Riddles
Last Answer : Because they keep drawing.
Description : Tom volunteered to be the chief organizer for the world's tether ball championships. There were 657 contestants from around the world. The tournament was set up whereby the winner would advance and ... round. How many matches will Tom have to schedule to determine the tether ball champion? -Riddles
Last Answer : 656 matches will be needed.
Description : Consider a subnet with 720 routers. If a three-level hierarchy is choosen with eight clusters, each containing 9 regions of 10 routers, then total number of entries in the routing table is ................... (A) 25 (B) 27 (C) 53 (D) 72
Last Answer : Answer: A Explanation: Each router needs 10 entries for local routers, 8 entries for routing to other regions within its own cluster, and 7 entries for distant clusters, for a total of 25 entries.
Description : What do you call a girl who's more than an eight hot and less than a five crazy? -Riddles
Last Answer : A unicorn because they don't exist.
Description : My only timepiece is a wall clock. One day I forgot to wind it and it stopped. I went to visit a friend whos watch is always correct, stayed awhile, and then went home. There I made a simple calculation ... I had no watch on me to tell how long it took me to return from my friend's house? -Riddles
Last Answer : Before I left, I wound the wall clock. When I returned, the change in time equaled how long it took to go to my friends house and return, plus the time I spent there. But I knew the latter because I ... I added this time to what my friend watch showed when I left, and set the sum on my wall clock.
Description : Ben walked into a hardware store and asked the price of some items. The salesman said: One costs $1, Eight costs $1, Seventeen cost $2, One hundred four costs $3 and One thousand seventy two costs $4. What was Ben buying? -Riddles
Last Answer : Ben was buying home address numbers and they cost $1 per digit.
Description : How do you put nine dogs in eight kennels? -Riddles
Last Answer : Eight kennels. 'N', 'I', 'N', 'E', 'D', 'O', 'G', 'S
Description : Where is the AD before BC, tomorrow before yesterday, and the eight is first? -Riddles
Last Answer : In a dictionary.
Description : What did zero say to eight? -Riddles
Last Answer : Nice belt
Description : What has eighty-eight keys but can't open a single door? -Riddles
Last Answer : A piano.
Description : Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we? -Riddles
Last Answer : Pawns in chess.
Description : We are eight brothers, all related. We are completely loyal to our leader. In a battle, we will sacrifice our life without questions. But our lives are not to be wasted; for we can be very helpful when the battles draws to an end. What are we? -Riddles
Last Answer : Chess Pawns.
Description : There is a door, on the side of the door that you are on, there is a skeletal army ready to trample you underneath their feet, on the other side is a city with a wall that will keep you safe. ... get one chance to guess. The doorkeeper says 'twenty one'. What do you say to get to safety? -Riddles
Last Answer : You would say 'nine' as, 21 is nine letters long. It's quite simple actually. Eight is five letters long hence 'five' and nine is four letters long hence the word 'four'.
Description : The distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 100 million miles. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, and light takes eight minutes to reach the Earth from the Sun. Let's say the ... of light is suddenly doubled to 372,000 miles a second.What time will the Sun rise tomorrow? -Riddles
Last Answer : 6am again. After all, what diffrence does the speed of light make to the answer? It's irrelevant- only the speed of the roation of the Earth matters here.
Description : How many months have twenty-eight days? -Riddles
Last Answer : All twelve months have 28 days.
Description : Combine plus signs and five 2's to get 28. Combine plus signs and eight 8's to get 1,000. -Riddles
Last Answer : 22+2+2+2=28; 888+88+8+8+8=1,000
Description : I'm made of eight letters,But hold a ninth inside;Pay a very small fee,And send me for a ride.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : An Envelope.
Description : When do elephants have eight feet? -Riddles
Last Answer : When there are two of them.
Description : Who is the strange one who lives in the sea, he has eight arms but no legs. Who is it? -Riddles
Last Answer : An Octopus.
Description : There are eight people who like each other? Rhonda likes Jim. Tom likes Amber. Cameron likes Britney. Will likes Katie. They all know that they're liked by at least someone. The question is, who is loved? *Hint think about the *words in this statement... -Riddles
Last Answer : No one is loved, they're just liked.
Description : Name an eight letter word that has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end. -Riddles
Last Answer : Inkstand - kst is in the middle. 'In' is the beginning, and 'and' ends the word.
Description : Lazy Larry agreed to work on a job for his brother-in-law for thirty hours at eight dollars an hour, on the condition that he would forfeit ten dollars per hour for every hour that he idled. At the ... -in-law any money either. How many hours did Larry work and how many hours did he idle? -Riddles
Last Answer : Lazy Larry worked 16-2/3 hours and idled 13-1/3 hours. 16-2/3 hours, at $8.00 an hour amounts to the same amount as 13-1/3 hours at $10.00 per hour.
Description : I am one with eight to spare, lest I lose my one. I'm not a number. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : A Cat. ( Nine Lives )
Description : What did the zero say to the eight? -Riddles
Last Answer : "Nice Belt".
Description : I am a two-digit number. All my digits are even. No two digits are the same. None of my digits are prime numbers. I am not a multiple of ten. My tens digit is bigger than my other numbers. ... big the number is) of all the other options with their digits added together. What number am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : If you followed all the steps apart from the last one there will be three options remaining: 64, 84, and 86. You then had to add up the digits, 64=6+4=10, 84=8+4=12, and 86=8+6=14. ... biggest number (12) and put it back as it was before the digits were added together and your answer should be 84.
Description : I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be! What Word Am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Few.
Description : I know a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be? -Riddles
Last Answer : The word 'few'. Add 'er' and it becomes fewer.
Description : I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be. What is it? -Riddles
Last Answer : The word 'Few'.
Description : I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : I am the word Few.
Description : Three equal numbers that when add them up is Sixty but not twenty. What are the numbers? -Riddles
Last Answer : 55+5=60
Description : What are three ways you can add 4 odd numbers and get ten? -Riddles
Last Answer : 1+1+3+5=10 1+1+1+7=10 1+3+3+3=10
Description : A man bumps into his mathematician friend on the street that he hasn't seen in 5 years. The man asks the mathematician how old his children are. The mathematician, who always replies in riddles ... 'My youngest child has blue eyes.' What are the ages of the mathematicians three children? -Riddles
Last Answer : They are 6, 6, and 1.
Description : My first is found on the ocean wave, In the spring, the pit, and the mine; My second below earth’s surface you have, Where seldom the sun can shine. My whole your dinner-table must grace, And seldom fails to obtain a place.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Salt-cellar.
Description : What of the eight elements in the table is most likely to form a positive ions and why?
Last Answer : Need answer
Description : A virtual memory has a page size of 1K words. There are eight pages and four blocks. The associative memory page table contains the following entries: Which of the following list of virtual addresses (in ... 1234, 4012, 5000, 6200 (C) 1020, 3012, 6120, 8100 (D) 2021, 4050, 5112, 7100
Last Answer : Answer: C Explanation: The pages which are not in main memory are: 1020 will not cause page fault (1024-2047) 3012 will not cause page fault (3072-4095) 6120 will not cause page fault (4096-5119) 8100 will not cause page fault (6144-7167)
Description : It's raining, and you pass a bus stop. There are three people there; your trustworthy friend, the love of your life, and a woman about to go into labor. Your smart car only has two seats. What do you do? -Riddles
Last Answer : You first give your keys to your friend and let them take the woman to a hospital, then you wait for the bus with your love.
Description : Your friend invites you to a party. She says you have to bring something. To get inside have to go through a green. Only certain things go through. You can bring a poodle but you can't bring a dog ... a rabbit but you can't bring a hare. What is three examples of something you could bring? -Riddles
Last Answer : Anything with a double letter.